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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : cups (SUSE-SU-2018:2162-1)

High Nessus Plugin ID 111508

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for cups fixes the following issues: The following security vulnerabilities were fixed : - CVE-2017-18248: Handle invalid characters properly in printing jobs. This fixes a problem that was causing the DBUS library to abort the calling process. (bsc#1061066 bsc#1087018) - Fixed a local privilege escalation to root and sandbox bypasses in the scheduler - CVE-2018-4180: Fixed a local privilege escalation to root in dnssd backend (bsc#1096405) - CVE-2018-4181: Limited local file reads as root via cupsd.conf include directive (bsc#1096406) - CVE-2018-4182: Fixed a sandbox bypass due to insecure error handling (bsc#1096407) - CVE-2018-4183: Fixed a sandbox bypass due to profile misconfiguration (bsc#1096408) The following other issue was fixed : - Fixed authorization check for clients (like samba) connected through the local socket when Kerberos authentication is enabled (bsc#1050082)Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.